[Gllug] ssh

[Vincent AE Scott]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:

> When I first started it it generated an RSA key which took a minute or
> so.
> Then it says generating DSA key (I think these TLAs are correct, I'm
> doing this from memory).
> Than it just does nothing on screen - I've left it for 15 mins. Is it
> just doing some heavy calculation that takes ages - should I persevere?
> There's no message, dots, spinning cursor or anything.

what does top show?  is the process actually using the CPU?
and if not have you tried running :
# strace -p <pid of program you ran>

this should give some indication about what the program is doing.

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